Bandy Creek is a north-eastern suburb of
Esperance, a town in south-eastern
Western Australia
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. Its
local government area
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is the
Shire of Esperance
The Shire of Esperance is a Local government areas of Western Australia, local government area in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, about south of the town of Kalgoorlie and about east-southeast of the state capital, Per ...
, and it is located northeast of Esperance's
central business district. The east and north of Bandy Creek are covered by the Mullet Lake Nature Reserve while, in the south, it borders the
Southern Ocean
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.
In the , Bandy Creek had a population of 223.
The Mullet Lake Nature Reserve was gazetted on 2 October 1953, has a size of and is located within the
Esperance Plains bioregion.
References
{{Towns Goldfields–Esperance WA
Suburbs of Esperance, Western Australia